362 The Botanical Gazette. [September, 
- Photographs of the laboratories and of students performing various 
experiments are shown in the exhibit of Purdue University in the 
Liberal Arts building, giving a very complete idea of the facilities of 
this institution for teaching botany, especially when taken in connec: 
tion with the apparatus shown in one of the cases. | 
- Harvard University in the same building shows a case of the hand- 
some glass models of flowers from the Ware collection, which now 
numbers 400 species, and will eventually number 1200 species of 
more; also a case of fibers, handsomely mounted; 20 fine illustrations, 
10 by 12 inches, very faithfully colored, from a forthcoming work on 
North American fleshy fungi by Prof. W. G. Farlow; and a set of the 
published writings of Dr. Gray. 
The Llinois University has, in the State Building, the most complete 
exhibit to illustrate the teaching of botany to be found in the Expo 
sition. It contains a working desk for an undergraduate student and 
one for an investigator, a series of microscopes formerly used and a 
series now in use, sets of microscopic slides, photomicrographic en 
- largements, apparatus for p graphy, sets of reagents and stains 
a very full bacteriological outfit with living cultures, an herbarium 
previously referred to, museum specimens, a set of reference books, 
card catalogues, and many other things that can not find ate : 
Across the aisle in the display made by the Experiment me 
that institution is along case showing diseases of cultivated plants — 
and a collection of seeds of wild plants. Building 
The Division of Vegetable Pathology in the Government fs eh 
makes a very creditable display of its work, showing wax mode ai 
diseased fruits and leaves, large photographs to illustrate paige | 
bacteriological and microscopical apparatus, and a set of paige be 
ing under a microscope, which last proves a very attractive 
the public. ater Agricul- 
The agricultural schools of France are represented in the mnodels 
tural Building near the southwestern corner. Here one will os of grape 
of grape seeds, each about two inches long,showing twelve ha Vials, of 
seeds, and plates illustrating grape diseases, shown D. P a ae 
the school of Montpellier; a set of twenty-four specimens} 
plant diseases, a wall chart of fungi, and a record 0 
coveries made at this school, dating from 1807 when pyre 
tained the nature of the bunt of wheat and propose 
sulphate remedy, later discoveries being made by 
Millardet and Prillieux, the exhibit being made by sagen perbaria 
the National Agricultural Institute; and finally seven “fe os Sante 
of about one hundred specimens each, from the schoo 
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